Ari Wallach

Founder &

Executive Director

Longpath Labs

Ari Wallach is a futurist and social systems strategist. He is the founder and Executive Director of Longpath Labs, an initiative focused on bringing long-term thinking and behavior to the individual, organizational, and societal realms. Ari’s TED talk on Longpath has been viewed over 2.2 million times and translated into 19 languages. Wallach was also the founder and CEO of Synthesis Corp., a New York-based strategic innovation consultancy whose clients included CNN, Volkswagen Global, The UN Refugee Agency and the US State Department. Wallach was the co-founder of the 2008 presidential initiative “The Great Schlep with Sarah Silverman” and most previously hosted Fast Company magazine’s “Fast Company Futures with Ari Wallach.” He is adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, lecturing on innovation and the futures of governance and public policy.